An illegal mega farm hidden in a home in the Villa Urquiza neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, with millionaire values on the black market, It was dismantled after an investigation that began with a fortuitous event, as reported this Friday by the Argentine Federal Police.
Detectives from the Environmental Crimes department of that force rescued thousands of poisonous and constrictor snakes, tarantulas, scorpions and other exotic insects, that were the product of international illegal trafficking, and it was established that the value on the black market of all these specimens would amount to approximately 81,300 dollars (about 75,897 euros at the exchange rate).
The investigation began last Wednesday, when in the framework of a car check in the town of Ciudad Evita, in the province of Buenos Aires, a 40-year-old man was detained who had hidden belongings among his belongings. two live snakes and another twelve dead, presumably intended for food of the former.
The man was arrested and charged in the case for violating the Wildlife Protection Law and the Animal Abuse Law, with the intervention of Federal Court 3 of the town of Morón, in charge of Alicia Vence, although he was released hours later , and it was decided that it would be investigated in the coming days.
The researchers were able to determine that the man had enclosures in his home conditioned for the breeding of a wide variety of snakes and reptiles such as iguanas, blue lizards from Central America, monitor monitors from Africa, python snakes and rainbow boas, both constrictors and poisonous snakes such as snakes and yarará, scorpions, scorpions and poisonous tarantulas from the South, Central and South North America region.